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...while we learn in 'Tis that his students learned something about similes, metaphors and five-paragraph essays, it seems that McCourt taught them a far more important lesson--that of the strength and resilience of the human spirit. When asked how he "survived poverty," McCourt said that he did it with a sense of humor, storytelling and "the dream that we were going to get out of that lane-- to get to America by hook or by crook...
...unworldly philosophizing, following him not just into the details of harpooning and coffin-shaped beds, but also into bloodshed and delirium and diabolism. "Blast winds! and spank these sails as though they were the flanks of horses," cries her Ahab, and we shiver anew as we recall that, one paragraph earlier, Una has found in him a "soft glowing...
People have remarked that for me conversation is largely an excuse to quote "The Simpsons". Those who make it past this paragraph might conclude that this column has no other raison d'tre. And yet I assure the reader that for me, quoting from the show has always been a means...
...first day. Putting the syllabus on the Web could help students and professors alike by helping move true teaching one day closer to the beginning of the term and by helping students know what a course is really going to cover in contrast to what a sexy paragraph might make them think. Currently, the helpful but at times outdated or incomplete list of books in the CUE Guide is the only hint to what books will be read...
...only a single paragraph, but Furrow's error-riddled written statement to police that day spoke volumes: "I am a white seperatist. I've been having suicidial thoughts. Yesterday I had thoughts that I would kill my ex-wife and some of her friends then maybe I would drive to Canada and rob a bank... Sunday I was feeling suicidial and cut my left index finger to the bone... Some times I feel like I could just loose it and kill people...